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Show TEN CASES OF SPANISH INFLUENZA IN MT. PLEASANT Order Issued By State Board Of Health To Close Schools And All Public Gatherings During Epidemic. Ten cases of Spanish Influenza has broken out in Mount Pleasant in four families during the week. Arthur Jorgensen. son of II. P. Jorgensen, is reported by his pyhsician as being in a very serious condition. He is very low at this writing. His mother, brother, Holdger and sister, Luella also have contracted con-tracted the disease. Paul Monsen is confined at his home. Byron Hampshire has the same illness. And Arthur F. Ras-mussen Ras-mussen and three of his children are also ill. All the cases are mild except that of Arthur Jorgensen. Following the most drastic health order ever issued in the history of Utah, the state board of health cancelled can-celled all indoor gatherings as a precaution pre-caution againpt the influenza epidemic-. Mt. Pleasant is abiding by the order today. All 'the schools cosed this morning and the boarding students left for their homes. The action of the state board of health closes all schools, meetings, Sunday schools, moving picture hcuces and bans all public assemblages assem-blages for such period of time as seems necessary to check the spread of the disease. Dr. W. P. Winters advises that people peo-ple avoid congregating in crowds, and especially in drug stores and con-fectionaries. |